. Boston, a guide book . on this spot for upward of a cen-tury. Then in 1748 another build-ing was erected on the oppositeside where is now the ParkerHouse. The present is the fifthbuilding of the school. In the long roll of Latin School pupils appear the namesof Franklin, Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine; Cotton Mather,Henry Ward Beecher, James Freeman Clarke, Edward Everett Hale, and PhillipsBrooks; Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley, and Francis Parkman;Presidents Leverett, Langdon, Everett, and Eliot of Harvard College; CharlesFrancis Adams, Sr., Charles Sumner, and Will
. Boston, a guide book . on this spot for upward of a cen-tury. Then in 1748 another build-ing was erected on the oppositeside where is now the ParkerHouse. The present is the fifthbuilding of the school. In the long roll of Latin School pupils appear the namesof Franklin, Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Robert Treat Paine; Cotton Mather,Henry Ward Beecher, James Freeman Clarke, Edward Everett Hale, and PhillipsBrooks; Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley, and Francis Parkman;Presidents Leverett, Langdon, Everett, and Eliot of Harvard College; CharlesFrancis Adams, Sr., Charles Sumner, and William M. Evarts. The heavy granite City Hall (built 1862-1865), of elaborate design,calls only for a passing glance. It succeeded a Bulfinch building onthe same site, — a Court House (predecessor of the present Old CourtHouse ), refitted for a City Hall. The bronze statues in the yard aremore interesting. That of Be^ijamin pyanklin was the first portraitstatue set up in Boston (1856). It is the work of Richard Boston City Hall CITY HALL 49 The fund for its erection was raised by popular subscription. The fourbronze medallions in the sunken panels of the pedestal represent asmany periods in Franklins career. The other statue, of Josiah Quincy^ is by Thomas Ball, and wasplaced in 1879. It represents the elder Quincy as he appeared in mid-dle life when mayor of Boston. The base is a block of Quincy marble statue by WilliamW. Story, in Memorial Hallat Cambridge, representsQuincy in later life, or whenpresident of the college. We may stop a moment atthe building next beyond thefoot passage by the side ofthe City Hall (another courtdignified with the term ofavenue), and observe the in-scribedfire-back set in its vesti-bule wall. The inscriptionrelates that on this site from1785 to 1815 was the dwellingof Dr. John Warren (brotherof Joseph Warren, killed atBunker Hill), who was thefirst professor of anatomyand surgery in Harvard Uni-versity. The fire-back camefrom
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